Jake SPEED wrote:Judge Roy Bean is great. My dad and uncle quote huge swaths of it whenever they get together. My dads nickname in college was Snake River Rufus Krile.

That's cool. Do you prefer Newman's portrayal of Roy Bean or Walter Brennan's (if you've seen The Westerner) ? Because I honestly can't decide which I like better.

Haven’t seen the Westerner but I’d wager that it’d be tough for Brennan to match Newman’s huge charisma and sense of comedic timing. Seen a handful of stuff with Brennan and he never really grabbed me— didn’t like him at all in To Have and Have Not. Newman is a titan.

Awesome set of movies you’ve been working through the past couple months.

Jake SPEED wrote:Judge Roy Bean is great. My dad and uncle quote huge swaths of it whenever they get together. My dads nickname in college was Snake River Rufus Krile.

That's cool. Do you prefer Newman's portrayal of Roy Bean or Walter Brennan's (if you've seen The Westerner) ? Because I honestly can't decide which I like better.

Haven’t seen the Westerner but I’d wager that it’d be tough for Brennan to match Newman’s huge charisma and sense of comedic timing. Seen a handful of stuff with Brennan and he never really grabbed me— didn’t like him at all in To Have and Have Not. Newman is a titan.

Awesome set of movies you’ve been working through the past couple months.

piping in to ride hard for Brennan, one of my fav character actors (Rio Bravo bros). his Bean is different from Newman's cuz he's playing grizzled oaf to Gary Cooper's charismatic gunslinger and it's kindof a clown/straight-man thing but with pathos mixed in. not hating on Newman, i think his Bean is fascinating and also his similarly unhinged performance in Buffalo Bill and the Indians.

A local film festival is having a Bergman retrospective. As usual, they programmed some interesting stuff for 10 in the morning on a workday, but I'm certainly going to check out Persona.Looking very much forward to the scene where the screen just tears apart / burns away.Toggle Spoiler